The Portland daily press., 1887-01-20
The MAINE LEGISLATURE.
Governor BcdwelI Receives a Visit
From TWO Redmen.
Avote to Allow Towns to Make Me-
mortal Day Appropriations.
A Bill to incorporate the Lime Rock
Transit Company
A Little Hair Pull over the Surety of
the Board of Agriculture.
A Bill Introduced Declaring the Dog
a Domestic Animal.
Petition for Aid for St. Elizabeth
Catholic Orphan Asylum.
Notes OF Men and Things About the
state Capital.
A Bill Introduced Declaring the Dog
Domestic Animal.
Petition for Aid for St. Elizabeth
Catholic Orphan Asylum.
Notes OF Men and Things About the
state Capital.
Especial to the PRESS }

AUGUSTA, Jan. 10.
Yesterday among those who awaited an
audience with Governor Bodwell, were two
well dressed and well appearing men who
sat side by side and maintained the stoica,
silence for which the North American Indian
is famed. They were Joseph Francis, grey
headed old Indian of the Penobscots, and
Peter j. Gabriel, younger envoy from the
Passamaquoddes. They had come up to see
the Governor about their people and their
wants; and when they were shown into the
Governors room, Mr.. Bodwell put them
down in easy chairs side by side, and draw
ing his own chair up to them the ''talk" be-
gan. This treatment seemed to reassure the
Indians, who had manifested some emDar-
rassment on entering the room. The Passa-
maquoddy wants the agency of his tribes 10
Gated at Eastport instead of Calais, as it is
great Inconvenience for the greater part of
his tribe to go so far as Calais for doctor or
medicine or provisions, when Eastport is
very near. Last year the delegate from the
Passamaquoddies was rather wild, not affect
ing anything more elaborate than a aborer's
clothes, with checked cotton shirt for fine
ry. But this year both Indians wore white
starehed shirts, with white collars and black
neekties nicely tied. Their clothes fitted
well, and they seemed used to good clothes.
They will not remain long, as their chief in
terest in a Legislature is to get what money
they can out of it. One eminent Senator re-
marked today as he saw them, "eight thous-
and dollars year for tive hundred of those
lazy fellowsl 1t is a disgrace to the State of
Maine, but | suppose it won't do to say any
thing against an Indian"
The Gettysburg Monuments.
4qo;.
taken action yet on the petitions for an ap-
preparation for the erection of monuments
on the battlefield of Gettysburg, except to
appoint Monday, January "a, as the day on
which the petitioners will be heard. They
did, however, on Tuesday vote to report fav-
orably on bill to allow towns to make ap-
preparations for Memorial day expenses.
Lime Rock by Cable.
The bill to incorporate the Lime Rock
Transit Company, introduced by Mr.. Glover
of Rockland, is a measure in which the peo-
pie of that city are much interested From
the quarries to the kilns the lime rock is now
auled-through the streets Of the city, with
result in the condition of the streets of
which everyone who has been in Rockland
has carried away vivid impressions. The
1iuiC lNVOh 1luhoib SOAlpuhJ Naub tAiC l%Cs-
islature to allow them to put up on poles an
immense endless cable reaching mile and
half, from the quarries to the kilns. This
cable will be kept journeying on the poles by
an engine at one end, and on it will be
hung buckets Of lime rock just as pals of
water might be hung on a clothes line When
the engine starts the cable begins to go, and
the buckets of lime rock will go swinging
above Rockland streets without raising dust
or punching the streets into mud. Mr..
Glover says that If the Legislature will give
them chance they will make the cable road
work without failure.
The Experiment Station.
1t would be queer if the Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station should fail to get its 5000
appropriation for the expenses of the next
two years, wouldn't it? But good many
members of the House say they cannot see
what good the station has done their constit-
uents, and it is whispered that the friends of
the Station will have To work tO pet tha an